Noun
scammer (plural scammers)
- (slang) A swindler, cheat.
2017 November 10, Aaron Mak, “This Hilarious Chatbot Messes with Scammers for You”, in Slate:According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.
2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
Translations
swindler, cheat
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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- Belarusian: махляр m (maxljar), махлярка f (maxljarka)
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- Catalan: estafador m, estafadora f
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- Mandarin: 騙子／骗子 (zh) (piànzi)
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- Finnish: huijari (fi), petkuttaja (fi)
- Galician: pufista m, caloteiro m, estafador m
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- German: Schwindler (de) m, Schwindlerin (de) f
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- Hungarian: csaló (hu), svindler (hu)
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- Plautdietsch: Schwindla n
- Polish: oszust (pl) m
- Portuguese: golpista (pt) m or f, vigarista (pt) m or m pl
- Punjabi: ਸਕੈਮਰ m (sakaimar)
- Romanian: țepar m
- Russian: мошенник (ru) m (mošennik), мошенница (ru) f (mošennica)
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- Spanish: defraudador (es) m, estafador (es) m
- Swedish: lurendrejare (sv) c
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- Ukrainian: зди́рник m (zdýrnyk), здира́ч m (zdyráč), здира́чка f (zdyráčka), шахра́й m (šaxráj), шахра́йка f (šaxrájka), ошука́ч m (ošukáč), ошука́чка f (ošukáčka), ошука́нець m (ošukánecʹ), ошука́нка f (ošukánka)
- Vietnamese: thằng lừa đảo
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